AnonymousAre there many nouns like this?
Give it a shove-off a steep hill
This should be
Give it a shove off a steep hill. Perhaps the intent was to place a dash there, indicating a pause in speaking:
Give it a shove -- off a steep hill. (There are hundreds of nouns derived from phrasal verbs, however.) Compare:
Why don't you take a long walk -- on a short pier? (= Go away and stop bothering me.) There is no noun
walk-on here.
Anonymous Why is there no article in front of the word 'committee'?
It was Mr. Lee, who prevented the bill from getting out of committee last spring.
committee is being used as a state of being or as a (metaphoric) place, like being in prison. Matters may
be stuck in committee,
for example. That means that the committee has not yet taken any
action. Sometimes it takes a long time before things
get out of committee.
That is, it takes a long time before the committee acts upon the
matter. To be "in committee" is to be halted -- to experience no
progress.
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Anonymous Can we use any product name like a countable
noun?...How about a plane? Can we put an article?
Yes. No problem.
CJ